Archive for the 'African-Americans' Category

Where the white women, who smoke, at?

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Please view this Robert Greenwald Brave New Films piece
FOX ATTACKS OBAMA
here.

From the suburbs “Too Arrogant to Give a $#!+”

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

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‘White Atlanta Suburbs Push for Secession
Push to Split Atlanta’s Fulton County Draws Cries of Racism
By DOUG GROSS
The Associated Press
ATLANTA - A potentially explosive dispute in the City Too Busy to Hate is taking shape over a proposal to break Fulton County in two and split off Atlanta’s predominantly white, affluent suburbs to the north from […]

SFBA: Part II

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

 Age is not a factor in the “$#!+ for Brains Award”
Va. lawmaker draws fire for slavery comment
Legislator says that blacks should ‘get over’ slavery; colleagues appalled
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IMAGE: Frank Hargrove
Del. Frank Hargrove, right, defends his remarks on slavery as Del. David Englin listens Tuesday during the House session at the Capitol in Richmond, Va.
Steve Helber / AP
Updated: […]

Scrabble Players Unite!

Monday, January 15th, 2007

This would have caused consternation to any number of U.S. adherents to the Nation of Islam and would have certainly precluded Riyadh as a venue for the Professional Bowlers Association matches.
“Will Saudis Ban the Letter ‘X’?
(My old electric Smith-Corona did this with much less fanfare.)
By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM
January 15, 2007
The letter “X” soon may be […]

As heinous a crime as this may be, we should recall some of our high points in the march of civilization.

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Shiite fighters torch six Sunni worshipers.
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I do not believe it necessary to display the results of the death grip
infatuation Jim Crow exerted deep into 20th century America.
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Images: (Savonarola) wilsonalmanac.com; (witch) sherlockiana.net; (Joan) faculty.fairfield.edu

Please find the AP story here.

2000: Florida–2004: Florida & Ohio–2006: Will it be Ohio, Maryland, California, Indiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, et al.?

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

‘POLL WATCHERS
Md. Democrats Say GOP Plans to Block Voters
By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 2, 2006; Page B06
A recently distributed guide for Republican poll watchers in Maryland spells out how to aggressively challenge the credentials of voters and urges these volunteers to tell election judges they could face jail time if a challenge is […]

I smell a Rove in the elevator SHAFT!

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

The New York Sun reports that a Republican PAC is sponsoring ads to entice African-Americans to vote for the GOP. What follows are a few transcripts of the actual ads. I did not write these as humor. Don’t believe me, read the article.

‘”If you make a little mistake with one of your ‘hos,’ you’ll want […]

If Georgie did use the term in question, I wonder if he had used it at any of his father’s football practices. There is a sidebar of oddity about this story. The only reason why Georgie had probably left California was a direct result of his father’s having taken the head coach’s job for a team still called The Redskins.

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

“(North Carolina State professor Edward J.) Sabornie said he has now decided to let his name be known because he was upset by how Allen responded this week to the Salon story. “What George said on Monday really kind of inflamed me — that it was ‘ludicrously false’ that he ever used the n-word,” Sabornie […]

Which actor donated the worst performance in Westworld? It’s not an easy question, is it?

Monday, February 20th, 2006

This is great.
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If it is true that President Bush considers Michael Crichton an expert on global warming, the sky is the limit. Frankly, I did not read State of Fear and the big reviews seemed less than laudatory.
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I believe the president should have arranged a meeting to speak to Michael Crichton about the author’s […]

I can already see the grad school seminars…

Friday, January 27th, 2006

687.1 The Geographic Roots of Environmentally-Induced Social Displacement in the Matrix of Early 21st Century Municipal Reorganization & Its Lessons for Mixed-Use Land Development.

Students will shorten the course title to the more meaningful CULTURAL GENOCIDE or Cult-Gen for the truly hip.

How can we blithely watch the destruction of an American city?

Easy!

Corporate America and their […]